Background
Kimes, the daughter of an Air Force pilot, graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
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Mina Kimes
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Career
Her first position after college was at Fortune Magazine in 2008. Her piece The End of Oil? The Columbia Journalism Review included her exposes among its business must-reads for 2012. She was on the Media Industry Newsletter’s Person to Watch list in 2012.
She joined Bloomberg News in 2013 as an enterprise reporter.
She was offered a position by Entertainment and Sports Programming Network editors after she wrote an essay on Tumblr about a "bond between herself and her dad and the Seattle Seahawks;" she is an avid fan of that team She wrote about football star Ray Rice, "tattoos and fandom", the underrepresentation women in executive positions in Major League Baseball, and other subjects.
She appeared as a guest on sports-related broadcasts. In 2015, she was hired to write a column for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network The Magazine.
Achievements
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Profiled a New Jersey-based inventor and entrepreneur who claimed to have discovered a method to convert water into energy. She won the New York Press Club"s Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Award as a result. Her 2012 investigation entitled Bad to the Bone exposed the unauthorized use of a cement to repair bone tissue, with lethal consequences, for which she won the Henry R. Luce Award. Her profiles of business executives Doug Oberhelman of Caterpillar, in a piece titled King Kat, and Sears executive Eddie Lampert, in a piece titled The Sun Tzu at Sears, won her the Front Page Award for business reporting.
